Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GERALD E. KNIGHT Plainfield...
...Game." For the first time in months, Navy's Hardin was a subdued coach. "I feel awful humble," he muttered. "You just can't crow over a game like this." But then after the trembles wore off, Navy got quivers of anticipation. Hardin escorted Felix Mc-Knight, chairman of the Cotton Bowl selection committee, into the dressing room. "Men," said Hardin, "we've been invited to the Cotton Bowl. Do you want to go?" A roaring cheer rattled the lockers. "Good!" said McKnight. "We've got a game." And what a game. Navy's opponent...
...represents some of the finest works of a moribund art in which precious stones, rather than paint, provided color, and malleable gold and silver, rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade...
Here was the opportunity to blow it--and Scully blow it. Northeastern moved in for the kill. Fran Ryan (who has all the pro scouts drooling, NU's publicity boys tell us) missed a five-footer. Gerry Knight got the rebound for Northeastern and missed a tip-in. Then he missed again. Bob Inman finally snared the ball, and Harvard and its most important basketball victory of the season...
When he was 52, he attempted suicide several times, with a sword by his side so that he would die with the appearance of a knight. Finally he succeeded. But without the Venetian visionary's work, such 18th century masterworks as the airy cityscapes of Canaletto and Guardi, the angel-frosted ceilings of Tiepolo and the imaginary prisons of Piranesi might never have come to grace great museums...